From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GLtqK-0006Eb-MY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:49:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k893mRuQ020720; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 03:48:27 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k893heYU014202 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 03:43:41 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so996603wxc for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:43:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SI2Nq+3qyWhOcfB77e6svTYMjo8+hpS0qRibcune2NcOnUV9Rv7PoCUO0BsVmPvqEp32dF3VbMVQN8u7Cj6AQGIKVuic4iLpti9Zfh3xn3+EV1oZFQ/MLB80SqaY+0/0QQXQHaVO9wedjWBe+aazyjgdvqF45S57yT5XHi9psk4= Received: by 10.90.105.20 with SMTP id d20mr1192012agc; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.27.12 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10609082043l6037d36fv17fa02985f967a29@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:43:40 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} New CPU for my motherboard In-Reply-To: <450208E7.3090300@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10609062054x294373a9j271407cecabae791@mail.gmail.com> <1157609016.1536.25.camel@orpheus> <49bf44f10609080959r3e534743vba8179ada8a263ca@mail.gmail.com> <450208E7.3090300@paradise.net.nz> X-Archives-Salt: 331518bf-b718-421d-9b73-bf5ae1d1254d X-Archives-Hash: cd7c451c01e90d30bf3952bf5c47159a > One thing that comes to mind is that the Tualatin P3-1.26 is a server > cpu and does not work in many desktop boards (I have *heard* that it > requires motherboard/memory ECC). If you've done the checking, and the > board is suitable then cool. It sounds like you're talking about the Pentium III-S. Are you sure the Pentium III-S has specific motherboard and memory requirements? The one I got was advertised as Pentium III, not Pentium III-S, but I'll send an email about that now. Good call. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Tualatin "Tualatin performed quite well, especially in variations which had 512 KiB L2 cache (called the Pentium III-S). The Pentium III-S variant was mainly intended for servers, especially those where power consumption mattered, i.e., thin blade servers." > I would hunt PC133 memory on ebay So you think PC-133 should work in a motherboard that only officially supports PC-100? > With respect to the question "yeah - but is it worth upgrading?" - I > think there is plenty of life left in PIII machinery Yeah, I should be able to get a *lot* more power out of my MythTV system (also a wireless router and firewall) with a $31 CPU upgrade and ~$35 memory upgrade. That's just plain worth it. :) Plus, I figure I can start saving the parts I upgrade for another (slower) system. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list